Eric Brad takes an in-depth look at the myths surrounding dog training, specifically Clicker Training and and Positive reinforcement training. Why, he wonders, are some people so resistant to changing their dog training techniques if they can get better results and have happier dogs?

Are training sessions with your dog a struggle that leaves you both frustrated? Eric Brad explores ways your dog can become a success in training — and have a great deal of fun in the process.

Eric Brad begins this year with the basics of clicker training and shows you how to set your dog up to succeed and have fun with training.

What Eric Brad has learned about dogs through behaviour training has fundamentally changed the way he sees them as beings — and it’s changed his life in so many wonderful ways.

The latest research and information on dogs and behaviour means you can work smarter instead of working harder to understand and enjoy your dog more.

It’s a fact of life that not everyone gets along with everyone else. Humans measure our own civility by our ability to coexist, using what we call “manners.” We shouldn’t be surprised that our dogs have a similar code of conduct that they adhere to when interacting with other dogs. But do we really understand or even recognize dog manners when we see them?

If we truly want to understand our dogs for what they are, we have to take off the “rose colored glasses” of conventional wisdom about dogs. If we want to understand our dogs’ emotions, we have to see them for what they are and not what we wish they were.